PMI-ACP Study Notes: Domain I Agile Principles and Mindset

[NEW! For the 2015 July PMI-ACP® Exam syllabus] The PMI-ACP® Exam consists of 120 questions which can be categorised into seven domain. The first domain: Domain I Agile Principles and Mindset is the knowledge about “how to explore, embrace, and apply agile principles and mindset within the context of the project team and organization” (source: PMI-ACP® Examination Content Outline).

Domain I Agile Principles and Mindset accounts for 16% of all questions in the PMI-ACP® Exam (i.e. ~19 questions among 120 PMI-ACP® Exam questions)

According to the PMI-ACP® Exam Content Outline, Domain I Agile Principles and Mindset consists of nine tasks:

Act as an advocate for Agile principles with customers and the team to ensure a shared Agile mindset

Create a common understanding of the values and principles of Agile through practising Agile practices and using Agile terminology effectively.

Educate the organization and influence project and organizational processes, behaviors and people to support the change to Agile project management.

Maintain highly visible information radiators about the progress of the projects to enhance transparency and trust.

Make it safe to experiment and make mistakes so that everyone can benefit from empirical learning.

Carry out experiments as needed to enhance creativity and discover efficient solutions.

Collaborate with one another to enhance knowledge sharing as well as removing knowledge silos and bottlenecks.

Establish a safe and respectful working environment to encourage emergent leadership throughself-organization and empowerment.

Support and encourage team members to perform their best by being a servant leader.

The following are the common Agile methodologies in practice these days, these are listed in order of importance for the PMI-ACP® Exam. An understanding of the process and terminologies of these Agile methodologies will help ensure Agile practices to be carried out effectively.

Scrum

XP (eXtreme Programming)

Kanban

LSD (Lean Software Development)

Crystal Family

FDD (Feature Driven Development)

ASD (Adaptive Software Development)

DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method) Atern

Information Radiators

Information radiators are highly visible charts and figures displaying project progress and status, e.g. Kanban boards, burn-down charts. These shows the real progress and performance of the project and team which enhances transparency and trust among team members and other stakeholders.

Agile Experimentations

Agile projects make use of empirical process control for project decisions, ongoing observation and experimentation are carried out during project execution to help and influence planning

Self organization includes: team formation, work allocation (members are encouraged to take up works beyond their expertise), self management, self correction and determining how to work is considered “done”

Agile team is given the power to self-direct and self-organize by making and implementing decisions, including: work priority, time frames, etc. as they believe “the best person to make the decision is the one whose hands are actually doing the work”

In Agile projects, the project manager/Coach/ScrumMaster practice servant leadership to remove roadblocks and obstacles and to enable the team to perform best

Summary: Domain I Agile Principles and Mindset

This PMI-ACP® Exam Study notes covers the first domain: Domain I Agile Principles and Mindset of the new 2015 PMI-ACP® Exam syllabus. Domain I accounts for 16% (~19 questions) of all questions to be found on the PMI-ACP® Exam.

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Hi Edward, Thanks for this site and information. Awesome work ! Can you please let me know if the sample questions for the exam can be found domain wise? i.e I wanted to test myself in Domain 1 , once I finish my reading domain 1 ?

Yes many PMI-ACP study resources allow you to do the questions according to the domains, e.g. the recommended PMI-ACP online course — Agile PrepCast as well as the study guide — PMI-ACP Exam Prep by Mike Griffiths (2nd Edition). You may refer the the links below for details:

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